dashexpress

Handling all the Express boilerplate with easy-outs.

DashEX

npm install dashexpress --save

Purpose & Features

For (1) quickly spinning up alpha projects, (2) without worry about keeping your boilerplate simple, concise and consistent between projects, (3) full access to lower level dependencies, giving you 100% power and flexibility, (4) authentication strategies and view components to come.

Getting Started - Easy Start

var dashex = require('dashexpress')();

var app = dashex.app; //remember, js 'points' to the our dashex.app object, so we're not creating more overhead here

var express = dashex.express;

// view available objects, low-level dependencies and parameters
console.log(dashex);

Options - Intermediate / Advanced Start

var defaults = {
	configureInit: null, /* function override for setting initialization, including dotenv and connect-flash */
	configureParsers: null, /* function override for setting body parsers, including json */
	configurePublic: null, /* function override for setting static assets location */
	configureSessions: null, /* function override for enabling and configuring express-session */
	configureViews: null, /* function override for setting view engine and views location */
	dirname: '', /* __dirname of your application, so that any directories mount correctly from your application */
	port: 8080, /* in case no PORT is defined in process.env, express can at least start on this defined port */
	publicDir: 'public', /* instead of overriding public configuration, naming the directory for any public static assets */
	sessionInit: { /* instead of overriding session configuration, passing various options to modify express-sesssion behavior */
		secret: 'dash',
		resave: false,
		saveUninitialized: true
	},
	viewsDir: 'views', /* instead of overriding views configuration, naming the directory for any views to be rendered */
	viewEngine: 'pug' /* instead of overriding views configuration, setting our application's view engine */
};

var dashex = require('dashexpress')(options);

Public and Views Directories

By default, DashEX will create your public and views directories, for your static assets and template views respectively. If you want to bypass this behavior, simply pass empty strings to both publicDir and viewsDir options.

var defaults = {
	publicDir: ''
	viewsDir: ''
};

var dashex = require('dashexpress')(options);

Methods

dashex.run() instantiates express.listen for our application